The con of Force Touch is when using gloves, you need to press harder to trigger opening apps and that triggered the menu instead.
The other Force Touch I loved was hard press on the keyboard would enable moving the cursor around. But you can do that by long pressing the space bar. No significant loss in my opinion.
Older iPhones had a screen that could interpret the pressure of your touch, giving the ui the ability to do multiple things based on how hard you press.
The best feature was pressing hard into the keyboard to get a cursor and then pressing lightly again to highlight text, all with just one thumb. It was super good. There’s an alternative to that now, but it pales in comparison.
What I don’t understand about what we have now is that you can’t “undo” your highlight like you used to be able to. So if you overshoot the highlight using the new system and select too much text, well, screw you.
With the 3D Touch way you could really dial in your selection back and forth. It seems like you should still be able to do that with this new space bar version, but, alas, no.
There’s an alternative to that now, but it pales in comparison.
Walt, is there a better way than long-pressing on a word and then clumsily moving the little markers to where you want your selection to start/end?
If there is I need to know, because I hate how janky selecting text often is.
Hold down on the space bar and you’ll get a cursor. Then if you tap — while still holding space — on the keyboard with another finger it’ll start to select the text.
Having to use two hands to do the same thing you used to be able to do with one is what I don’t like. But it’s at least something.
Hold down on the space bar and you’ll get a cursor. Then if you tap — while still holding space — on the keyboard with another finger it’ll start to select the text.
Thanks. I use the space bar to move the cursor a lot, but didn’t know it could select text too. Feels pretty damn clumsy though.
I have no idea which IOS version this was but, I miss the 3D Touch.
I remember using it a lot back when it was still available.
As far as I know, if you have an iPhone X or older, 3D Touch is still supported on current software.
I’m pretty sure they removed it even on the devices that had it. The watch definitely lost it. But I might be misremembering.
3D Touch is still working on my XS Max.
I’m gonna sorely miss it when I upgrade.
The con of Force Touch is when using gloves, you need to press harder to trigger opening apps and that triggered the menu instead. The other Force Touch I loved was hard press on the keyboard would enable moving the cursor around. But you can do that by long pressing the space bar. No significant loss in my opinion.
I had an iPhone X up until this summer and it still had Force Touch.
What was that?
Older iPhones had a screen that could interpret the pressure of your touch, giving the ui the ability to do multiple things based on how hard you press.
The best feature was pressing hard into the keyboard to get a cursor and then pressing lightly again to highlight text, all with just one thumb. It was super good. There’s an alternative to that now, but it pales in comparison.
Yes! That feature alone kept me from upgrading my iPhone X until the 12 Pro came out. The alternative is severely limited, and annoying to use
What I don’t understand about what we have now is that you can’t “undo” your highlight like you used to be able to. So if you overshoot the highlight using the new system and select too much text, well, screw you.
With the 3D Touch way you could really dial in your selection back and forth. It seems like you should still be able to do that with this new space bar version, but, alas, no.
A whole 2 years …
3 years, actually. It may not seem like much, but many people upgrade every year. Especially those of us who are into tech
Walt, is there a better way than long-pressing on a word and then clumsily moving the little markers to where you want your selection to start/end? If there is I need to know, because I hate how janky selecting text often is.
Hold down on the space bar and you’ll get a cursor. Then if you tap — while still holding space — on the keyboard with another finger it’ll start to select the text.
Having to use two hands to do the same thing you used to be able to do with one is what I don’t like. But it’s at least something.
Thanks. I use the space bar to move the cursor a lot, but didn’t know it could select text too. Feels pretty damn clumsy though.
It was on the iPhone 6s to iPhone Xs
I don’t know if you’ve tried it yet, but setting the “Haptic Touch” option to “Fast” gets you a bit closer to what you could do with 3D touch.
It’s under Accessibility -> Touch -> Haptic Touch
Personally I like it better vs the default setting.